This work is a labor of love by writer Mary Thorpe as a tribute to her much loved Granny O’Rourke (nee Nolan) in an attempt to place the stories she heard and was told into a true and historical conte
Anne Atik, the poet, and her husband, the distinguished painter Avigdor Arikha, were part of Samuel Beckett's circle in Paris from the 1950s until the latter's death in 1989. Atik began jotting down c
A debut anthology of stories captures the different stages of life as a child tells the story of his playground while a middle-aged man recalls cherished moments from his college days. Reprint.
Published to coincide with the 1969 Nobel Prize winner's one hundredth birthday, a portrait by one of his closest friends is based on their more than four-decade relationship and offers insights into
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn’t trust the British in the dark. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of t
From the words of the child himself, this true story tells what life was like growing up with a cheetah as a pet in his home in Nairobi, Kenya. Reprint.
Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of h
The lavishly illustrated companion book to the new film by the award-winning director of Quest for Fire, The Bear, and The Name of the Roseabout twin tiger brothers in the jungles of French Indochina
